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|accepted_name=Acleisanthes crassifolia
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|place=2, 15: 260. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Texas trumpets
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Acleisanthes;Acleisanthes crassifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Acleisanthes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Acleisanthes crassifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 34
|treatment_page=page 36
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbaceous, often slightly woody at base, overall pubescence of white, capitate hairs 0.1–0.2 mm. <b>Stems</b> procumbent, sparsely branched, 15–50 cm, hirtellous to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> grayish green (major veins prominently paler), petiolate, those of pair slightly unequal; petiole 2–15(–20) mm, hirtellous; blade ovate to deltate-ovate or oblong-ovate, (5–)10–35(–45) × 2–20(–30) mm, base usually rounded, margins undulate, apex apiculate and acute or less frequently obtuse, sparsely puberulent abaxially and adaxially, adaxial primary and secondary veins hirtellous. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, sessile or nearly so; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2–7 mm, long attenuate, usually puberulent. <b>Flowers</b>: chasmogamous perianth 3–5 cm, puberulent, tube 1–1.5 mm diam., limbs 8–25 mm diam., stamens 5; cleistogamous perianth 2–6 mm, hirtellous, stamens 2. <b>Fruits</b> with 5 broad, flat ribs, lacking grooves and resinous glands, 5-angled and shallowly 5-sulcate, oval-oblong, truncate at both ends, 6–9 mm, hirtellous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Rocky, calcareous soils in cenizo (Leucophyllum frutescens) shrublands and grasslands
|elevation=200-700 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
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name=Acleisanthes crassifolia
|author=
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Rocky, calcareous soils in cenizo (Leucophyllum frutescens) shrublands and grasslands
|elevation=200-700 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
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|genus=Acleisanthes
|species=Acleisanthes crassifolia
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